Unruly Passions: Poetics, Performance, and Gender in the Ranchera Song

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Preface xi
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction: Chicana Feminisms at the Crossroads: Disruptions in Dialogue 1
6. CHAPTER ONE
7. Cartohistografía: Continente de una voz / Cartohistography: One Voice’s Continent 19
8. Response: Translating Herstory: A Reading of and Responses to Elba Rosario Sánchez 52
9. CHAPTER TWO
10. Contested Histories: Las Hijas de Cuauhtémoc, Chicana Feminisms, and Print Culture in the Chicano Movement, 1968–1973 59
11. Response: Chicana Print Culture and Chicana Studies: A Testimony to the Development of Chicana Feminist Culture 90
12. CHAPTER THREE
13. The Writing of Canícula: Breaking Boundaries, Forms 97
14. Response: Sad Movies Make Me Cry 109
15. CHAPTER FOUR
16. Literary (Re)Mappings: Autobiographical (Dis)Placements by Chicana Writers 114
17. Response: (Re)Mapping mexicanidades: (Re)Locating Chicana Writings and Translation Politics 146
18. CHAPTER FIVE
19. Chronotope of Desire: Emma Pérez’s Gulf Dreams 155
20. Response: The Lessons of Chicana Lesbian Fictions and Theories 178
21. CHAPTER SIX
22. Unruly Passions: Poetics, Performance, and Gender in the Ranchera Song 184
23. Response: . . . Y volver a sufrir: Nuevos acercamientos al melodrama 211
24. Translation of Response: . . . And to Suffer Again: New Approaches to Melodrama 220
25. CHAPTER SEVEN
26. Talkin’ Sex: Chicanas and Mexicanas Theorize about Silences and Sexual Pleasures 228
27. Response: Questions of Pleasure 254
28. CHAPTER EIGHT
29. Underground Feminisms: Inocencia’s Story 260
30. Response: Grounding Feminisms through La Vida de Inocencia 291
31. CHAPTER NINE
32. Domesticana: The Sensibility of Chicana Rasquachismo 298
33. Response: Invention as Critique: Neologisms in Chicana Art Theory 316
34. CHAPTER TEN
35. Reproduction and Miscegenation on the Borderlands: Mapping the Maternal Body of Tejanas 324
36. Response: The Sterile Cuckoo Racha: Debugging Lone Star 349
37. CHAPTER ELEVEN
38. Anzaldúa’s Frontera: Inscribing Gynetics 354
39. Response: Inscribing Gynetics in the Bolivian Andes 370
40. Contributors 377
41. Index 383